O. BTdK 712 obverse
Other nos.: O. KV 18/2.415
  
Description: Limestone, 24.1 x 12.8 x 4.0 cm. Inscribed on two sides: on obverse 8 lines and a horizontal line above in black ink and a sketch drawing in red ink; on reverse some lines of a literary text and a sketch drawing in black ink. Complete.
Classification: letter (model)
Keywords: message - working
Provenance: Valley of Kings, workmen's huts near KV 18. Findspot: B.SH1.A5. (see Remarks)
Publication: Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 440-441 (description, transliteration, translation, commentary), pls. 605-607 (photograph, facsimile, transcription); Dorn, in: Living and Writing in Deir el-Medine , 69-72 (description, facsimile, transcription, transliteration, translation, commentary)
Dates mentioned: -
Dates attributed: Mid dyn. 20 (Dorn)
Contents: Model letter from scribe MAA.n=i-nxt=f to the vizier Nfr-rnp.t about work for Pharaoh.
Terminology: NN n NN swDA ib n nb anx wDA snb (obv. 1-3); hAb pw r rdi.t rx pAy=i nb nty (obv. 3-4)
Names/Titles: an. ( Pr-aA anx wDa snb ; king; obv. 5); Imn-Ra-1r-Ax.t.y (deity; obv. 7); MAA.n=i-nxt=f ( sS ; obv. 2); Nfr-rnp.t ( TAy-xwy Hr wnmy-nswt im.y-r Niw.t TAty ; obv. 1-2)
Remarks: Provenance: for the findspot identification see Dorn, Arbeiterhütten , 17-19.

Record last updated 2012-09-12


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